Lifeless

Tom Thorne’s career seems to be on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seriously overstepping the mark on his last case, he’s been encouraged to take leave, a devastating situation for an ambitious detective.

But not as dire as the situation for London’s homeless. Three men have been murdered, each victim kicked to death and found with money pinned to his chest. Were they just random victims? Or were they targeted for a reason? Feeling like one of life’s rejects himself, Thorne is determined to find out. In a harsh and harrowing netherworld, with its own rules and moral codes, he discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a 15-year-old atrocity. Those that know stay silent. But the word on the streets is that the killer is a cop. A policeman, it seems, was sniffing around long before Thorne came on the scene.